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This post is part of a weekly feature on RACblog. Check in at the end of the week for a roundup of stories in which the RAC has been featured!...
If any of you have ever made a hotel reservation online, you know how important the rating system can be. If you are going someplace new and you have no first-hand recommendations to help you,...
The following is a profile of Rabbi Miri Gold that IRAC published back in July of 2006. We're reposting it here at this time given yesterday's landmark decision in Israel to actually provide...
The Israeli Supreme Court announced today that it would not tolerate institutionalized gender-segregation, a move welcomed by liberal groups in Israel. However, the Court's ruling also maintained...
Recently, the New Israel Fund, an organization that supports civil rights, religious pluralism, and social justice in Israel, has come under attack in the Israeli media. In response, Rabbi David...
Yesterday, President Obama held the first ever White House reception in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month. President George W. Bush proclaimed May as Jewish American Heritage Month in 2006....
It has been so exciting to be in touch with many Reform Jews, through email, phone, or our recent webinars concerning the Women of the Wall, a monthly progressive prayer group that has recently met...
The Justices just might be on our side. Last week, while hail and freezing rain pounded the skylights of the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem, the IRAC team was inside and warm and enjoying...
In honor of Purim, that most silly time of year, when we are commanded to drink and disguise ourselves until we cannot recognize even those we know best, I'd been planning a fantasy Purim spoof of...
I just read a thoughtful piece about religious pluralism and civic equality in the Huffington Post by Joshua Stanton, a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College and co-Editor of the Journal of...
Today, the URJ released a statement calling on the Knesset to reject a piece of legislation that would alter the Law of Return such that converts to Judaism would not be eligible for Israeli...
"Wondrous God, in ancient days You led our people from bondage to freedom; redeem us now out of our exile from one another, making all Israel one united people!" -From the liturgy for Rosh Chodesh...
I recently ended a three-week trip to the United States and returned home to Israel. This was a particularly emotional trip, as I was in Boston the day of Marathon. I saw firsthand how resilient...
IRAC received a tremendous honor last Thursday: We were invited to carry the lead banner at the Jerusalem Pride march. The Jerusalem Pride march, while smaller than the one in Tel Aviv, is...
I watched Nurit Melamed dance for the first time this week. Seeing her gracefully weave her feet is not something outside of the ordinary for Nurit, who is an accomplished choreographer and folk...
Imagine a law that asserts that I am a woman: The Womanhood Act, a hypothetical piece of legislation. This law entitles me to the rights that women have and denies these rights to all non-women....
So far, my time in Israel has been filled with more questions than answers. One of the things I’m most excited about this year is the opportunity to live in Israel, to experience daily life here,...
When I had the chance go to the Kotel, or the Western Wall, I was able to walk up to the men’s section, find an open section of wall, and run my hands over the coarse, grey stone that I’d...
Israel Independence Day celebrates the oneness of the Jewish people in all its colorful diversity. What if we carried that spirit with us every day?
The air stood still in Jerusalem’s Zion Square last night
Unfortunately there are people in this world who look upon the LGBTQ community and see it as a threat, a scourge to be wiped off the earth, a people whom God has cursed. But if they were to look...
On November 14, May Peleg, a leader and activist in the Israeli LGBT community, took her own life at the age of 31.
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Take your false concerns for the children of LGBTQ parents elsewhere; we're doing just fine, thank you.
